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Incorrect UNESCO 'Number of locations'

WHS whose Serial ID number on the UNESCO Web site which identifies the number of separate locations is incorrect because they are shown either
a. As being single locations with no separate Serial IDs but whose map and/or description clearly shows that they contain multiple (i.e 2 or more) geographically separated locations.
b. As including locations which were not actually inscribed
c. Consisting of more separate geographical locations than the number of separate Serial IDs
Show the correct number of locations where known

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Asante Traditional Buildings: No of locations not clear. We know that between 10 and 13 buildings were inscribed. Whilst some may be "adjacent" to and therefore potentially in the same "location" as another, others are widely scattered around or many kms from Kumasi and therefore must be separate "locations"

Bagerhat: shown as only having a single location but apparently having 2.
"Today,the monuments of Khalifata-bad, which have been partially disengaged from the vegetation, may be divided into two principal zones 6.5 kms apart :
to the West, around the mosque of Shait Gurrbad, renowned for its large prayer room, divided into seven longitudinal naves; and to the East, around the mausoleum of Khan Jahan. More than 50 monuments have been catalogued: in the first group, the mosques of Singar, Bibi Begni and Clumakkola; and in the second, the mosques of Reza Khoda, Zindavir and Ranvijoypur." (AB evaluation).

Granada: Website shows 2 locations (because of the later addition of Albayzin), but core zone is one integrated area and this wasn't nominated as a serial site

Grand Canal: No indication of a separate serial ID for the 31 'groups of buildings' that are indicated in the nomination text

Hortobágy: no separate map, but the maps in the nomination file (page 50/51 and 95/100) show about ten different areas of various size

Kii Mountain Range: No of locations not clear (the UNESCO documentation lacks the detailed map in App 1c!!) but certainly more than 1 - "In all, the nominated site covers 495.3 ha. This is made up of the three main sites, which cover 44.8, 94.2, and 63.1 ha respectively, and 307.6 km of pilgrimage routes, which together cover 293.2 ha. The pilgrim routes nominated are not all contiguous as there are sections excluded where they have been influenced by modern development. All parts of the nominated site are protected by a buffer zone, which varies in extent from element to element - some of the routes only being protected by a very narrow zone. The whole buffer zone covers 11,370ha." (AB eval) See this map which presumably shows in light colours the non-inscribed portions of the routes which must therefore create separate inscribed sections

Rammelsberg and Goslar: The Upper Harz Water Management (2010 extension) has only one ID but multiple locations. The nomination file lists 719 ponds, ditches and water tunnels (several of them may be contiguous, but there are still plenty of different locations), plus specific monuments such as Walkenried monastery, Samson mine, Rosenhof wheel chambers, Knesebeck Shaft, Ottiliae Shaft, Kaiser Wilhelm II Shaft.

Route of Santiago de Compostela: Shows 20 (those of the 2015 extension), but these include 4 main routes and 16 individual sites that represent those routes. The 978(?) previously inscribed locations on the main route are omitted.

Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans: 2 locations - Salins-les-Bains and Arc-et-Senans - the two locations look connected, but the legend of the map and the indicated size (10 ha) suggest that the waterway is part of the buffer zone (a kind of "linear buffer zone")

Takht-e Soleyman: UNESCO has 1, but there are 7 separate areas shown on the map (1 main location and 6 numbered units in the buffer zone)

Tyre: No of locations not clear. The "Reactive Monitoring Mission" of 2012 had considerable difficulty in establishing boundaries for the property using documentation provided from the time of inscription onwards. The UNESCO Web site description makes it clear however that there are at least 2 separate inscribed areas "In the modern town of Soûr, the property consists of two distinct sites: the one of the town, on the headland, and the one of the Necropolis of El Bass, on the continent."

Upper Middle Rhine Valley: Recorded by UNESCO as being a single "location" but in fact contains an "exclave".
"The only exclave is the rounded top of the hill called the Rochusberg near Bingen." (Nom File). THE AB evaluation describes how the nominated boundary was altered during evaluation - "During the expert mission the delimitation of the nominated area in Bingen was discussed and it was agreed that this should be slightly modified. The State Party has relocated the boundary at the Drusus Bridge, one of the oldest medieval stone bridges in Germany (on the site of a Roman bridge) which spans the Nahe tributary, so as to include the church of St Martin." But, as the registered map shows, this extension up the Nahe still doesn't reach the westernmost section of the Rochusberg and is separated from it by the L417 road.